William Eggleston's Guide
1976403899New York: MIT Press for the Museum of Modern Art 1976. 4to. 110 pp. 48 color photographs and one black-and-white portrait of Eggleston. Original black bonded leather with gilt-stamped spine and cover onlay. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION no date on the title-page; copyright page dated only 1976. Issued as the companion to Eggleston's seminal 1976 exhibition at MoMA a landmark in the history of photography. "I once heard William Eggleston say that the nominal subjects of his pictures were no more than a pretext for the making of color photographs-the Degas position. I did not believe him although I can believe that it might be an advantage to think so or to pretend to think so. To me it seems that the pictures reproduced here are about the photographer's home about his place in both important meanings of that word. One might say about his identity" John Szarkowski pp. 5-6. "As pictures . these seem to me perfect: irreducible surrogates for the experience they pretend to record visual analogues for the quality of one life collectively a paradigm of a private view a view one would have thought ineffable described here with clarity fulness and elegance" ibid. p. 14. Auer 598; Open Book 308-309; Parr and Badger I:265; Roth 238-239. . <br/><br/> MIT Press for the Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
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